An Englishman's View of the Battle

An Englishman's View of the Battle
Title An Englishman's View of the Battle PDF eBook
Author Frederick Edge
Publisher Applewood Books
Pages 82
Release 2009-03
Genre History
ISBN 1429019433

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An Englishman's View of the Battle Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge

An Englishman's View of the Battle Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge
Title An Englishman's View of the Battle Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge PDF eBook
Author Frederick Milnes Edge
Publisher
Pages 122
Release 1864
Genre United States
ISBN

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An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge

An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge
Title An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge PDF eBook
Author Frederick Edge
Publisher Litres
Pages 48
Release 2021-03-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 5040752105

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The Real Bull-Fight - An Englishman's View Of Bull-Fighting

The Real Bull-Fight - An Englishman's View Of Bull-Fighting
Title The Real Bull-Fight - An Englishman's View Of Bull-Fighting PDF eBook
Author Otis Mygatt
Publisher Read Books Ltd
Pages 30
Release 2011-06-14
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1446549577

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Last Englishmen

The Last Englishmen
Title The Last Englishmen PDF eBook
Author Deborah Baker
Publisher Graywolf Press
Pages 442
Release 2018-08-21
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1555979947

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A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.

The Fatal Englishman

The Fatal Englishman
Title The Fatal Englishman PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Faulks
Publisher Vintage
Pages 336
Release 2009-07-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307523608

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In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young. Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as an artist. Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor’s orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three. Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of the peculiar pressures of his time. Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War
Title Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War PDF eBook
Author Donald H. Dyal
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 393
Release 1996-04-16
Genre History
ISBN 031303270X

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Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first modern foreign war. Catapulting the United States into an international world power, the war had lasting international implications. Besides America's acquisition of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam, the war led the United States to take to the international stage, confronting Germany and Japan (foreshadowing the conflict of World War II), and creating a diplomatic bridge between Great Britain and the United States. For Spain, the 1898-1899 conflict was the death knell of empire, which led to a national crisis culminating in the Spanish Civil War. This volume provides easily accessible information on the naval and army operations, Spanish operations, and the political background to the military events, with an emphasis on future foreign affairs. The Spanish American War is seminal to an understanding of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations—in Cuba, the Pacific, especially Japan, and with Great Britain. It is also central to an understanding of twentieth-century Spain. U.S. military history also requires an understanding of amphibious operations, naval and army reform, deployment command and control, and interservice cooperation as reflected in the Spanish American War. This book provides a quick reference to what was once called this splendid little war.